2012 Economist Global B-School Ranking

European b-schools in general dropped a few places from last year. Most notably, IMD, ranked in third place in 2011, and dropped to tenth place in 2012. Cranfield got bumped off the list – in 2010, this British b-school was ranked #15; in 2011 it dropped to #23.

York Schulich lost its footing the top ten by dropping from ninth to sixteenth place, leaving the top ten without a Canadian representative.

New to the top ten this year is MIT Sloan, which ranks as #7 – up from #11 in 2011.

Another big jumper this year was Cornell Johnson which jumped up 10 spots, from #25 to #15.

New schools in the top 25 this year are Emory Goizueta (which jumped from #28 to #21), UCLA Anderson (#27 last year and now at #23), and Michigan Ross (which moved up six places from #30 last year to #24 this year).